"I just hope he goes out, plays well and puts two fingers up to the section of the crowd that may have been booing him last week.

"It’s something I don’t think we need in the game.

"We don’t always agree, but that’s the beauty of sport. You disagree with someone and that’s fine, but you’d like to see there’s a bit of respect out there for people who are trying to do their best. He doesn’t go out there to put that jersey on and fail.

"But that’s enough of that rant, I suppose."

Priestland will partner Mike Phillips at half-back against Fiji, with Biggar out injured with a groin problem, though Gatland said the Ospreys man might have been fit at a push.